I was recently contacted by a person who has an interesting double-handled,
double-lipped pitcher marked "PAT. APPLIED FOR JUNE 7, 1872   STONE CHINA
MANUFACTURED AT BEAVER FALLS, PA".  It looks to me like they put two handles
on this piece to accommodate the two poring lips, possibly intended to be a
presentation piece.  It is also likely that it did not receive a patent
since it is not a common form or at least one I am not familiar with at this
time.  The only potters I know around that time in Beaver Falls, PA are the
Mayer brothers Arthur, Ernest and Joseph but they did not start until a
short time later (1881 according to Lehner).  Joseph Mayer emigrated to the
United States from England in 1865 and within a few years had secured
several valuable patents relating to jiggering machinery, equipment that
made use of revolving molds to form pottery vessel shapes.  Perhaps this
represents one of the forms he attempted to patent.  Is there a way to
search denied patents? 

Any thoughts?

I can email photos off-line if requested

Bill Liebeknecht, MA 
Hunter Research, Inc.
Trenton, New Jersey
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